The Chancellor Manuscript by Robert Ludlum [FIRST EDITION • FIRST PRINTING] 1977 • The Dial Press

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The Chancellor Manuscript by Robert Ludlum

FIRST EDITION • FIRST PRINTING [1977] THE DIAL PRESS

*True 1st Printing w. $10.00 cover price in tact on unclipped front panel.

Hardcover with dust jacket in excellent condition.

Dust jacket has some mild shelf and edge wear but looks great in a new Archival Quality brodart dust jacket protector. 

Book itself is gorgeous.  Mustard paper boards with gilded snakeskin leather spine.  Faint marks to text block.  Tightly bound.  Reads good as new!


Did J. Edgar Hoover die a natural death - or was he murdered? A top-notch thriller from the No. 1 bestselling author Robert Ludlum.

Inver Brass: a group of high-minded and high-placed intellectuals. They see a monstrous threat to the country in Hoover's unethical use of his scandal-ridden private files. And so they decide to do away with him - quietly, efficiently, with no hint of impropriety. Until bestselling thriller writer Peter Chancellor stumbles upon information that makes his previous books look like harmless fairy tales.

Now Chancellor and Inver Brass are on a deadly collision course, spiralling across the globe in an ever-widening arc of violence and terror. They are hurtling towards a showdown that will rip Washington's intelligence community apart, leaving only one damning document to survive: The Chancellor Manuscript...